KittyK

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Thanks Mike. I've already planted the rhubarb & apple tree, although the rhubarb is closer than 2 feet there's plenty of manure a foot deep. The rhubarb are 1st year crowns, and the tree is a 2yr-old, so if either shows signs that they are not doing well I'll move them in the winter to a more generous spacing.

I'm busy turning my gardening into an edible garden, including planting a few 2yr-old fruit trees (apple, cherry & plum) along a south facing fence. My mum says that in 1960s the nearby orchards grew rhubarb under apple trees. Can anyone give me some advice please about whether this is a good idea to do in my garden?...it has plenty of well-rotted manure dug in to it. And if not, what else will be good companion plants to grow under the fruit trees?

My garden is long & thin (a ratio of 1:7.5) and is mostly sunny (apart from a 3 feet strip of deep shade running along north facing long fence line & the area under my neighbour's enormous 40 foot Christmas tree where not even grass grows!). So I need to make the most of the remaining 9'x50' south facing strip.